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Poem: Under A Telephone Pole I am a copper wire slung in the air, Slim against the sun I make not even one clear line of shadow. -Explain the imagery in the first two lines of the poem |
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Answer» Sandburg contrasts the surreal PHENOMENON of voices travelling through the COPPER wire with the telephone line’s seemingly insignificant and slight presence: ‘SLUNG in the air.’ Perhaps most significant though is the extended METAPHOR that connects the telephone wire’s work with that of a soldier or messenger whose role is to carry important MESSAGES between people. |
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